Sustainability Project

Sustainability Programming, 2011-2012: Overview

Our programming will engage the campus community on the issue of sustainability in multiple and creative ways.

We will begin with our own program's offerings,
organizing our undergraduate courses, graduate seminar, yearly
conference, and four "road trips" (open to all students and faculty)
around issues of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, as
well as coordinating with faculty in various other departments to
cross-list other sustainability-themed courses.

In support to this work, and as a means of bringing
sustainability-minded faculty together, we are working with the Center
for Teaching to create a cross-disciplinary faculty development program,
scheduled for May 2011 and 2012, modeled on Emory University's highly
successful Piedmont Project; in the long term, we believe, this
initiative will prove instrumental in the work of integrating
sustainability into Vanderbilt's curriculum.

We are also partnering with the Art Department and the
Program in Creative Writing to bring in artists and writers who treat
sustainability in their work and with the Film Studies and International
Lens programs to sponsor a series of documentary films on
sustainability topics.

Our ultimate goal for this year of programming is to
create a campus-wide conversation that will embolden Vanderbilt's
efforts toward sustainability while deepening our understanding of what
we are working toward.

Visit our Events page for a full list of Sustainability Project programming.

The American Studies Sustainability Project is generously funded by the College of Arts and Science Fant Fund.